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The Oakland PressTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:45:51 -040060State Rep. Tim Greimel read to students at six schools in Auburn Hills and Pontiac during March is Reading Month, visiting classrooms from kindergarten through fifth grade.

"Literacy and reading comprehension is the foundation that every child's education rests on. That is why reading to children at an early age is so vital," the Auburn Hills Democrat said.

April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate, Waterford Township is welcoming all to the kickoff of its Poetry Leaves exhibition on Wednesday, April 1.]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:19:41 -04002015-03-31T11:19:41-04:002015-03-31T17:07:01-04:00The Oakland University Board of Trustees will be discussing several of the school's ancillary budgets when it meets Wednesday, April 1.

Budgets for activities such as intercollegiate athletics, which has a proposed budget of $8.4 million for the 2016 fiscal year, would take effect when the school's fiscal year begins July 1.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:22:15 -04002015-03-31T16:22:15-04:002015-03-31T17:03:53-04:00Officials are saying a blown tire is the cause of a corporate jet sliding off a runway Tuesday at Waterford's Oakland County International Airport.

A Beechcraft Hawker jet was taking off at 8:20 a.m. and a tire blew, said Dave VanderVeen, Oakland County director of central services.

"The stress of that caused the second tire to blow and the pilot aborted the takeoff," said VanderVeen.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:20:58 -04002015-03-31T15:20:58-04:002015-03-31T17:02:32-04:00Holding a chunk of concrete that fell from a bridge, Gov. Rick Snyder urged Macomb County business leaders Tuesday to support Proposal 1 and fix Michigan roads.

Speaking before approximately 400 people at a Macomb Chamber Alliance luncheon, Snyder said voter defeat of the proposed increase in the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent will lead to further deterioration of roads and that no funding alternatives are on the horizon.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:36:21 -04002015-03-31T15:36:21-04:002015-03-31T17:01:00-04:00An autopsy of a Pontiac woman who died after a Sunday house fire will take place Wednesday, April 1, according to Wayne County officials.

Ryan Bridges, spokesman for Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office, said autopsy was set for Wednesday and that the victim had not yet been identified.

The 30-year-old woman

Timothy Brickey said he is known by his friends as "the king of April Fools."

That's because of a prank he played last year on April 1.

"All of my friends have made jokes about wanting to date my mom since we were in middle school," said Brickey of Allen Park. "Last year, I had enough.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:39:17 -04002015-03-31T11:39:17-04:002015-03-31T16:56:41-04:00DETROIT -- More than 13,000 Detroit-area property owners have entered into payment plans hoping to avoid losing their homes to tax foreclosure, but another 16,000 living in their homes have yet to take advantage of the offer ahead of Tuesday's deadline.

Hundreds of applicants sat in a hotel ballroom waiting for the chance to plead their cases before Wayne County Treasury workers, with many lining up before 7 a.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:49:17 -04002015-03-31T16:49:17-04:002015-03-31T16:49:17-04:00DETROIT -- Many tractor-trailers on the nation's roads are driven faster than the 75 mph their tires are designed to handle, a practice that has been linked to wrecks and blowouts but has largely escaped the attention of highway officials.

Nearly all truck tires have been built for a maximum sustained speed of 75 mph since the middle of last decade, when drivers across the vast majority of the U.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:36:15 -04002015-03-31T16:36:15-04:002015-03-31T16:36:44-04:00Royal Oak police officers raised support for a local charity with a special kind of lip service in March -- they grew mustaches.

Throughout Mustache March, officers expressed their follicular freedom and grew lower-nose ticklers to benefit Camp Casey, a non-profit group in Royal Oak that runs a horseback-riding program for children with cancer and their families.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:47:45 -04002015-03-31T15:47:45-04:002015-03-31T16:34:14-04:00The attorneys for a Hazel Park couple battling the state's ban on same-sex marriage have determined who will present oral arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mary Bonauto has been tasked with that duty. On April 28, she will address whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex, according to a press release issued Tuesday morning.

The department says the measure is a preventative one to help keep Troy safe.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:46:57 -04002015-03-31T10:46:57-04:002015-03-31T15:35:04-04:00Granite City Food and Brewery Ltd is opening in Northville on Wednesday, April 8. The St. Cloud, Minn.-based restaurant and brew-pub will open its 33rd location in the Northville Park Place development on the southwest corner of Haggerty and Seven Mile roads.

Granite City has partnered with the Northville Civic Concern food bank by donating 10 percent of each meal purchased on April 8 to the food bank.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:32:02 -04002015-03-31T15:32:02-04:002015-03-31T15:32:02-04:00Gregory Flynn has been sworn in as West Bloomfield Township's new fire chief.

The former chief, Jay Wiseman, recently retired.

"Jay Wiseman was an exemplary fire chief and we re-established the assistant fire chief position last year to enable a smooth transition," said West Bloomfield Supervisor Michele Ureste.